North Atlantic Cooperation Council | NACC [Abbr.]

Euro-Atlantic Partnership-Forum | North Atlantic Cooperation Council | NACC [Abbr.]

Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council [ EAPC | NACC | North Atlantic Cooperation Council ]

Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council [ EAPC | North Atlantic Cooperation Council ]

North Atlantic Cooperation Council's 1994 Work Plan for Dialogue, partnership and cooperation

North Atlantic Council - General Affairs Council | NAC-GAC [Abbr.]

Financial Representative to NATO [ (Canadian) Financial Representative to NATO ]

Atlantic Cooperative Council

4. Notes the close historic ties of Iceland with Northern Europe and the successful Euro-Atlantic cooperation for more than 60 years;

4. Notes the close historic ties of Iceland with Northern Europe and the successful Euro-Atlantic cooperation for more than 60 years;

21. Notes that, given the increasing global and regional relevance of China, India and other emerging countries in Asia, both the United States of America and the EU may progressively shift their primary attention, political investment and resources to the Pacific and perceive the North Atlantic dimension and mutual cooperation as less strategic; further notes that Asia should play a more important role on the foreign agenda of the European Union and EU Member States; calls for more coordination of the US and EU policies towards China, India and other emerging countries in Asia in order to avoid a decoupling of such policies; strongly ...[+++] believes that by coordinating their efforts the USA and the EU will attain the required political synergies to engage in an effective positive and constructive dialogue with the BRICS and other emerging countries; takes the view that, without prejudice to the G-7, regular EU-US summits would provide the opportunity to identify common objectives and coordinate strategies on matters of global relevance, including economic governance, in order to reach a common approach towards the emerging powers; recalls that transatlantic relations are of utmost importance both economically and politically and stresses the mutual strong economic relationship between the United States of America and the EU; considers that the Transatlantic Economic Council and the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue could also offer an opportunity for dialogue and stock-taking and should thus include a reflection on strategic engagement by the EU and the US of the BRICS and other relevant emerging countries and on how to foster regulatory convergence with such countries; recalls the need to set up a Transatlantic Political Council as an ad-hoc body for systematic, high-level consultation and coordination on foreign and security policy between the EU and the US;

Consequently, the TACs for stocks of sole in the North Sea, of plaice in the North Sea, of cod in the North Sea, Skagerrak and the eastern Channel, and of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean should be established in accordance with the rules laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 676/2007 of 11 June 2007 establishing a multiannual plan for fisheries exploiting stocks of plaice and sole in the North Sea (4); Council Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008 of 18 December 2008 establishing a long-term plan for cod stocks and the fisheries exploiting those stocks (5) (the ‘Cod Plan’); and Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009 of 6 April 2009 concerning a multian ...[+++]nual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (6).